4227 – finding out which packages depend on a given package

Bug 4227 - finding out which packages depend on a given package

Summary: finding out which packages depend on a given package

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2938

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-06-27 06:56 UTC by Aniruddha Shankar
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Aniruddha Shankar 2002-06-27 06:56:36 UTC

It should be possible to find out which packages depend on a given package, and, ultimately, 
which packages  depend on those, so that an unmerge of a package could be contemplated 
depending on which packages it would break.

Comment 1 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-11 04:36:50 UTC

yeah, I really need this feature !

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 12:37:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2938 ***